Throughout this migraine hell, one amazing piece of good news: After all my desperate attempts to ask Cat to please, please take her natural depression medication at an adequate dose-- she finally did. She doubled the dose of St. John's Wort starting a month ago, and she's been a very different person since ( Read more... )

I was telling my abductee friend Natalie in Texas about how my life was going, and it was so awful-- the migraine train, the bullshit with Cat, the crazy with my mother and sister, and how I might lose my affordable living situation-- that she started laughing at how bad it was. I began giggling right with her, because it really is a fucking SHIT  ( Read more... )

At long last, after my roomie Mike's patient labor (of making a flat spot on the side of a hill and then tamping it down with a special device) I can move forward to complete the Fire Circle I have wanted for so long ( Read more... )

It's been really quiet around here, lately, yeah?

I've been... cocooning-- I guess is the best way to phrase it. I haven't felt much like talking or writing-- which isn't like me at all, I know! Usually, the words are a near-continuous stream that rarely lets up. I began writing to have a safe outlet as I whirled around and around my thoughts. And ( Read more... )

I'm actually west of Portland with Amara from today thru Thursday evening, and it was an eventful day! I got ready, scrambling a bit because yesterday I was just effing useless-- but I was all packed and ready to go a full 2 hours before she arrived at Heron Hold. Then I got Mike to help her take that cabinet she was offering to the Circle all the ( Read more... )

Yesterday late afternoon I had my audio interview with Jim in our witches' attic. It was all ready and I was feeling excited and nervous, but Jim and John (the sound guy) got everything set up and everyone was just so easy-going and efficient that things were ready in a jiffy!

And then we began ( Read more... )

I don't know what to do for that interview with Jim Perry! WHERE do I have it when the house is total chaos because we have guests? (AND I've been sick a lot AND Cat doesn't have the energy or motivation to sort through her shit ( Read more... )

Apologies to all for my prolonged absence ( Read more... )

Things settled down with Cat after a couple of days. Le sigh!

SO glad she'll be getting regular therapy at last soon!

Meanwhile, I came across this article that made me look at myself:
getpocket.com/explore/item/the-downsides-of-being-very-emotionally-intelligent

E.Q. is one's Emotional Quotient, and measures the traits of:
"... intrapersonal ( Read more... )

Cat got a repair heat and cooling guy to Heron House today at 8am! Wow! And they discovered the fan was out because a connection blew out on the circuit board, so he used a soldering tool of Cat's to craft a new temporary circuit until the new circuit board arrives to replace the old one ( Read more... )